Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:05:58 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Peter Schmidt <peter@SchmidtP.rbh.nthames.nhs.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903181256360.54355-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990318104620.456A-100000@SchmidtP.rbh.nthames.nhs.uk>
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On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Peter Schmidt wrote: > I just upgraded my machine from FreeBSD 2.2.7 to FreeBSD 3.1 (stable > release) and encountered a few problems: > > 1.) I have Windows NT Server installed as well. So when booting up > the boot manager prints something like > F1 NTFS (or the like) > F2 FreeBSD > > Now after installing I get > F1 ?? > F2 FreeBSD > However I can still boot into NT. > Is there any way to change this and configure the printout > to something other than "??" ? Try osbs153.exe (DOS program - do you still have an old DOS boot floppy?) from the tools subdirectory to install an alternate boot manager which can be configured. > 2.) When I use telnet I get a message > tcp/telnet: unkown service > However, all the other network services work fine (ftp, http) Maybe your /etc/services file is damaged (hard to believe). There should be two lines like telnet 23/tcp telnet 23/udp > 3.) When trying to install the XF86 3.3.3.1 version with > /stand/sysinstall nothing happens. At first sysinstall installs > the compat22 package, but then it immediately moves on to > fixing permissions in the XFree86 tree without having installed > a single bit. Read error while reading from CDROM? Try to install the packages manually: mkdir -p /usr/X11R6 cd /usr/X11R6 tar xvzf /cdrom/XF86333/Xbin.tgz ... Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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